Download or read book The Wave Equation on a Curved Space-Time written by F. G. Friedlander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a rigourous discussion of the local effects of curvature on the behaviour of waves. In the course of this discussion many techniques are developed which are also needed for a study of more general problems, in which the gravitational field itself plays a dynamical role.